5. Money Laundering and Privatisation: The Money in Cyprus Scandal and the Privatisation ofJugoremedija

6. State, Interest and Political Corruption: The Bankruptcy of Sartid and the Privatisation of C Market 7.Institution-Building and Institutionalised Corruption: The Port of Belgrade Privatisation and Swine Flu Scandals

8. Conclusions: Political Scandals and Political Action.

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This book examines the relationship between corruption scandals and transitional processes in post-Milosevic Serbia after 2000. The study challenges the view that corruption has always been understood as a conflict between private interests and the public good, as these concepts are defined in Western democracies, and explores how anti-corruption discourse has been used for political mobilisation. Through an examination of high-profile political scandals in Serbia, the author shows how the meaning of corruption changed over time. In the early 2000s, corruption focused on the legacy of Milosevic's rule and was identified through the public's limited access to the privatisation process. By the end of the decade, conceptualisations of corruption in public debate were so diversified that each anti-corruption measure undertaken by the state was interpreted as an act of corruption by other voices in the discourse. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in corruption studies, discourse analysis and Balkan politics. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783319901008 20180917

Chapter 2. NGOing and the Donor-Effect PART II: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE

Chapter 3. The "Democrats": Salon NGOs in Belgrade

Chapter 4. The "Nationalists": Radikali and Privatization PART III: GOOD GOVERNANCE

Chapter 5. Revitalizing Communities, Decentralizing the State

Chapter 6. NGOs vs. State: Clash or Class? Conclusions References.

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Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the "associational revolution" in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. Looking into the nation's "transition" through a global and relational analytical prism, the ethnography unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781789200997 20190206

"This book argues that Europe, through the European Union (EU), should act as a great power in the 21st century. The course of world politics is determined by the interaction between great powers. Those powers are the US, the established power; Russia, the declining power; China, the rising power; and the EU, the power that doesn't know whether it wants to be a power. If the EU does not just want to undergo the policies of the other powers it will have to become one itself, but it should differ in its strategy. In this book, Sven Biscop seeks to demonstrate that the EU has the means to pursue a distinctive great power strategy, a middle way between dreamy idealism and unprincipled pragmatism, and can play a crucial stabilizing role in this increasingly unstable world. Written by a leading scholar, this book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU policy, strategic studies and International Relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Chapter 1: The French Revolution: A Producer of Narratives about Citizenship

Chapter 2: Becoming Foreign

1: The Nation as Space Susceptible to Intrusion

Chapter 3: Becoming Foreign

2: The Nation and Its Affective Economies

Chapter 4: Becoming Foreign

3: The Nation and Its Juridical Community Part II: Denaturalization in Times of War: Modeling the Self, Creating the Other

Chapter 5: From Belonging to Repression: Denaturalization and WWI

Chapter 6: Denaturalization in the Context of WWII: Expanding Denaturalization before the War

Chapter 7: Denaturalization in the Context of WWII: France's Totalitarian Infection Part III: Terrorism, Nationality and Citizenship: France and Beyond

Chapter 8: Of the Link between the War against Terrorism and Denaturalization

Chapter 9: The 21st Century Struggles over Denaturalization Conclusion Bibliography.

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This book investigates politics of denaturalisation as a system of thought that influences seminal cultural political values, such as community, nationality, citizenship, selfhood and otherness. The context of the analysis is the politics of citizenship and nationality in France. Combining research insights from history, legal studies, security studies, and border studies, the book demonstrates that the language of denaturalisation shapes national identity as a form of formal legal attachment but also, and more counter-intuitively, as a mode of emotional belonging. As such, denaturalisation operates as an instrumental frame to maintain and secure the national community. Going back to eighteenth-century France and to both World Wars, periods during which governments deployed denaturalisation as a technology against "threatening" subjects, the analysis exposes how the language of denaturalisation interweaves concerns about immigration and national security. It is this historical backdrop that helps understand the political impact of denaturalisation in contemporary counterterrorism politics, and what is at stake when borders and identities become affective technologies. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781786606778 20190318

1. The European Union and the Left 1.1 Fragmentation and retreat of democracy 1.2 The challenge for the Left Ch.

2. The evolution of the EU since Maastricht 2.1. Neoliberalism and hegemony in the EU - drawing on Hayek 2.2. Neoliberalism and state monopoly over money 2.3. Creating the euro: A lever of neoliberalism and conditional German hegemony 2.4. The "architectural flaws" of the euro 2.5. The broader context of conditional German hegemony Ch.

3. The ascendancy of Germany and the division of Europe 3.1. A distinctive financialised economy 3.2. The defeat of German labour in the 1990s 3.3. The competitive advantage of Germany and the creation of the Southern periphery 3.4. The unstable core of the EMU and the Central European periphery Ch.

5. Greece in the iron trap of the euro 5.1 The proximate causes of the Greek crisis 5.2 Long-term weaknesses of the Greek economy 5.3. The lenders impose bail-outs and bring disaster 5.4. Class and national interests in the Greek disaster 5.5 The political debacle of SYRIZA Ch.

6. Seeking democracy, sovereignty, and socialism 6.1. Democracy and sovereignty in the EU, once again 6.2 The impossibility of radical reform 6.3. A class-based stance for the Left 6.4. What to do?

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Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. He contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas's powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781509531066 20190128

This book addresses the process of decentralization in Italy, examined from the perspective of political parties. In particular, it assesses whether and to what extent the dynamics of party competition are likely to shape policy agenda and affect policy change. The author starts by providing a thorough account of the process and history of Italian decentralization and the policy outcomes achieved over time, before discussing how party attention to an issue triggers related policy changes (manipulation of salience). Next, the focus shifts to the concrete positions adopted by parties on decentralization to assess whether the pattern of party competition has been consensual or adversarial, and how this pattern influenced the process of reform (manipulation of position). Finally, the author examines the role of frames in party competition. This volume offers essential research that will prove useful to a variety of audiences, ranging from scholars of territorial and Italian politics to those interested in agenda-setting, policy change, and party politics. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783319758527 20180813

This book examines how patterns of political representation, party system, and political culture have changed in Southern Europe following the "Great Recession" of 2008. It draws on the experience of Portugal to argue that austerity measures have significantly deepened the legitimacy crisis of democratic institutions, but the resilience of party system is remarkable in comparison. The case of Portugal present some interesting differences from other southern European democracies, since on one hand it suffered a deep economic crisis and the consequent bailout from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union, but on the other hand the party system remained stable. Nevertheless the impact of the crisis did reinforce a centre-periphery cleavage within the European Union, and especially in the Eurozone, Portugal is a central element of this new cleavage notoriously aggravated by Brexit. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783319981512 20190225

An incisive, comparative study of the development of Post-World War II progressive politics in Britain, France, and the United States Toward the end of World War II, the three democracies faced a common choice: return to the civic order of prewar normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original work, Isser Woloch assesses the progressive agendas that crystallized in each of the allied democracies: their roots in the interwar decades, their development during wartime, the struggles to enact them in the early postwar years, and the mixed outcomes in each country. The Postwar Moment examines three progressive postwar manifestos that reveal a common agenda in the three nations. The issues at stake included priorities for reconstruction or reconversion; "full employment" via economic planning; price controls; the roles of trade unions; expansion of social security; national health care; public housing; and educational reform. A highly regarded scholar of European history, Woloch persuasively adds the United States to a discussion that is usually focused solely on Europe. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780300124354 20190318

1. The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans

Gianluca Passarelli

2. The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Croatia Dario-Nikic Cakar

3. The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a mitigated presidentialism Suad Arnautovic, Elma Huruz

4. The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Macedonia: the role of ethnics Dane Taleski, Viktor Dimovski and Lura Pollozhani

5. The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Montenegro: a limited semi-presidentialism Srdan Darmanovic, Zlatko Vujovic, and Nikoleta Tomovic

6. The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Slovenia: leaders and parties Danica Fink-Hafner and Krasovec, Alenka

7. The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Albania: the parliamentary constraints Afrim Krasniqi

8. The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in Kosovo: the institutional limits Albert Krasniqi.

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This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western Balkans. The Western Balkan countries deserve to be analysed in a comparative perspective due to their distinctive features in terms of processes of democratization, forms of government and institutional assets, the presence of social cleavages (religious, linguistic, ethnic), and, of course, the nature of political parties which differs from other European cases, especially in terms of origins, organization and structure. However, Western Balkan political parties do show certain similarities with other West European cases where power is centralised and held by the parties' leadership. The book ultimately attempts to test whether and to what extent the influence of institutional variables affects the level of presidentialisation of political parties, also considering the parties' organization features. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783319973517 20181112

1. The Political System of Putin's Russia and Its Significance for World Affairs

2. Russia Today: The History of How and Why It Came to Be

3. Authoritarianism on the Periphery: Understanding Russia's Political System and How It Works

4. The Future of Autocracy in Russia: What Do We Have to Tolerate (and for How Long)?

5. In Lieu of a Conclusion Afterword:

2018 and the Imperative for Change Notes Index.

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A quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia once again looms large over world affairs, from Ukraine to Syria to the 2016 U.S. election. Yet how power works in present-day Russia--how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule--remains opaque and often misunderstood. In The Putin System, Russian economist and opposition leader Grigory Yavlinsky explains his country's politics from a unique perspective, voicing a Russian liberal critique of the post-Soviet system that is vital for the West to hear. Combining the firsthand experience of a practicing politician with academic expertise, Yavlinsky gives unparalleled insights into the sources of Putin's power and what might be next. He argues that Russia's dysfunction is neither the outcome of one man's iron-fisted rule nor a deviation from the supposedly natural development of Western-style political institutions. Instead, Russia's peripheral position in the global economy has fundamentally shaped the regime's domestic and foreign policy, nourishing authoritarianism while undermining its opponents. The quasi-market reforms of the 1990s, the bureaucracy's self-perpetuating grip on power, and the Russian elite's frustration with its secondary status have all combined to enable personalized authoritarian rule and corruption. Ultimately, Putin is as much a product of the system as its creator. In a time of sensationalism and fear, The Putin System is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how power is wielded in Russia. (source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780231190305 20190318